hey, thanks for the mention 😊

Geeeeeek (i love it)

I like the idea and to be honest this is something I already had in mind (the plan exposition)—let’s see what it means over the weekend 😊

oh let me have a look at this

DuckDB team announced 2025 will be the year of the LakeHouse focus 🥹

DuckCon #6 a few hours away, Pakhuis De Zwijger or live on the @duckdb.org Youtube channel.

duckdb.org/events/2025/...

Speaker are impressive, looking forward to hear from them, chance to see in person a bunch of GitHub/Discord handles / talk DuckDB a bunch.

I will be around, come to say quack!

Extraordinarily detailed article here by @mliebreich.bsky.social - if you're interested at all in the energy impact of AI data center buildouts I recommend spending some time with this, I learned a ton from it

The GPT-4 barrier was comprehensively broken Some of those GPT-4 models run on my laptop LLM prices crashed, thanks to competition and increased efficiency Multimodal vision is common, audio and video are starting to emerge Voice and live camera mode are science fiction come to life Prompt driven app generation is a commodity already Universal access to the best models lasted for just a few short months “Agents” still haven’t really happened yet Evals really matter Apple Intelligence is bad, Apple’s MLX library is excellent The rise of inference-scaling “reasoning” models Was the best currently available LLM trained in China for less than $6m? The environmental impact got better The environmental impact got much, much worse The year of slop Synthetic training data works great LLMs somehow got even harder to use Knowledge is incredibly unevenly distributed LLMs need better criticism Everything tagged “llms” on my blog in 2024

Here's my end-of-year review of things we learned out about LLMs in 2024 - we learned a LOT of things simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/...

Table of contents:

If Korben talks about it means its mainstream now @hannes.muehleisen.org haha

Hannes keynote at the Forward Data Conference. Really enjoyed his talk, this is for this kind of content that I’ve organised the conf 🔥

yeah

The State of Data Engineering in 2024: Key Insights and Trends A Look Back at the Year's Defining Patterns in Data Engineering

DEW published its yearly State of Data Engineering: Key Insights and Trends. This one-edition summary summarizes the key patterns of all DEW editions this year. Later this week, we will follow up on DEW's data engineering prediction for 2025 and beyond.

www.dataengineeringw...

From what I’ve seen Windsurf is great especially at frontend tasks as well

When simpler means that i need an AWS account?

I see Glue as an imposter here in the sentence haha

yes youre right if I remember correctly the discussions i had with them a few months ago

I can now run a GPT-4 class model on my laptop Meta’s new Llama 3.3 70B is a genuinely GPT-4 class Large Language Model that runs on my laptop. Just 20 months ago I was amazed to see something that felt …

I can now run a GPT-4 class model on my laptop

(The exact same laptop that could just about run a GPT-3 class model 20 months ago)

The new Llama 3.3 70B is a striking example of the huge efficiency gains we've seen in the last two years
simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/9/l...

Foursquare places data is live in the hive 🐝 🍯

@hachej.bsky.social @seifert.blue

why are we so addicted to 3 letters when it comes to naming stuff?

This week it's MCP

yato 🫣

this is the exact wrap-up of the situation, but when taking a step back, imho, what we are trying to replicate with Iceberg is just what comes natively with DuckDB, so sometimes I'm like, why do we do this to ourselves

Here in Paris its fairly common haha

I see DuckDB as a format yes, either standard either just metadata.

DuckDB removes the need for a specific catalog, you have it embedded directly with it

even more 20% / 80% haha

that's fun you're saying this, I tend disagree, I think we can't do both because they are fundamentally different imho, I don't buy the overcomplexity of having many formats over the simplicity of picking only one

tho, I like what you're building

I have to write more on this, but for later

joined STATION F, now I'm a founder (lol)

yes for sure!

god i feel empty, no conference to organise anymore 🥹

yesterday was a crazy day after 6 months of work for the Forward Data Conference — so happy of the feedbacks and how it went

Salut Paris!

Forward Data Conference is amazing.

Awesome Keynote by @hannes.muehleisen.org about Changing Large Tables at the Forward Data Conference — Iceberg the Duck is coming for you